Biography
Associate
Professor of Business Administration Andrea Larson teaches in the MBA program
and Executive Education in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation and
sustainable business. Sustainable business strategies integrate economic, social
and environmental performance considerations into product design, operations and
supply chain management. Building on earlier research in entrepreneurship,
alliances, and network structures, her current work focuses on innovative
entrepreneurial firms engaged in sustainable business as a strategic and
competitive advantage.
She has published in
Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Business
Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Interfaces.
Her work has also appeared in edited volumes on innovation, green
chemistry, ethics and entrepreneurship. Larson was co-founder in 2002 of the
Ingenuity Project, a program under the Batten Institute at Darden to
integrate theory and practice on entrepreneurship/innovation together with
sustainable business practices and to encourage their use in management
education and companies. Entrepreneurship theory, green chemistry principles,
industrial ecology and cradle-to-cradle design are illustrative of the core
approaches. Larson speaks in variety of venues on entrepreneurship and
sustainability topics and recently, by invitation, provided Congressional
testimony on U.S. policy to encourage development of greentech innovations.
She holds a PhD from Harvard University, awarded jointly by
the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, focused on economic development and entrepreneurship.
Expertise
Entrepreneurship
Sustainable Business and
Innovation
MBA Courses
Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Sustainability In-Depth: Studies of Schumpeterian Innovation
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Conversations and Debates on Globalization
Business Ethics
Executive Education Courses
Sustainability and Beyond: Business Leadership Through Innovation and Design
The Darden Partnership Program
Managing Critical Resources
Featured Video
Students
and faculty from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business discuss
the school's approach to teaching about sustainability challenges and
opportunities.